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dt-bindings: pse: tps23881: Clarify channels property description
authorKory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:02:39 +0000 (12:02 +0200)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:57:43 +0000 (10:57 +0200)
Improve the channels property description to better explain the
relationship between physical delivery channels and PSE PI pairsets.
The previous description was unclear about how channels are referenced
and used in the port matrix mapping.

Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250620-poe_doc_improve-v1-1-96357bb95d52@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/pse-pd/ti,tps23881.yaml

index 3a5f960d8489a0cca3ecb282be8162e073ec58fc..bb1ee33986555059779f155b46b982256454649d 100644 (file)
@@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ properties:
     maxItems: 1
 
   channels:
-    description: each set of 8 ports can be assigned to one physical
-      channels or two for PoE4. This parameter describes the configuration
-      of the ports conversion matrix that establishes relationship between
-      the logical ports and the physical channels.
+    description: |
+      Defines the 8 physical delivery channels on the controller that can
+      be referenced by PSE PIs through their "pairsets" property. The actual
+      port matrix mapping is created when PSE PIs reference these channels in
+      their pairsets. For 4-pair operation, two channels from the same group
+      (0-3 or 4-7) must be referenced by a single PSE PI.
     type: object
     additionalProperties: false